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Monday, August 13, 2012

My Massive Sunday Haul, 8/12/12

So many bonus packs today! I found a double pack of Physician's Formula twin concealer (unfortunately I forgot to photograph it), Listerines with bonus strips, and razors with bonus shaving cream! I also got some unexpected discounts with my 20% Gold Discount at Rite Aid, including on the Nivea, Purell, Nivea, pacifier and razor sale prices. Walgreens turned out to be an awesome moneymaker trip; I found some clearance Revlon nail polish that qualified for the $3.00 Register Reward this week! Oops, Walgreens! ;-p

*This deal was tricky. First of all, I had to do it on a separate card, as I already got my 2 $4 +Ups with the foundation. I was using a different card anyway to finish the Bic deal (see below), so I just combined this with that. Also, I had originally thought that I could buy all these tools together and get the cheapest tools (the emery boards) for half price; instead, I was getting two of the more expensive tools for half price and paying full price for 2 of the emery boards, which meant I wasn't reaching $10. So I had to do 4 transactions, each with a more expensive item and with an emery board, so that I could force the system to give me the latter at 50%. While high maintenance, this worked like a charm.*

$ 351.13 Total Shelf Price
- 97.76 Total Coupons
- 114.03 Total Discounts
=$139.34 Total Out of Pocket Cost
- 130.00 Total Rewards/Rebates Received/To be Received
=$ 9.34 97.3% savings off shelf price

In short, I paid about $43 out of pocket for $350 worth of crap, and walked away with $15.00 more rewards than I started with today. Plus I submitted for a $14.00 Single Check Rebate. Coulda done worse.